A nautical tale for young readers

Plenty of people have read Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and even more are familiar with the story of Ahab's doomed pursuit of the white whale, but few are aware that the climactic event at the book's end is based on a true incident. Nathaniel Philbrick tells this astounding tale in Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex, an adaptation of his best-selling adult book In the...